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Daily Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1870), 1878-01-28

Daily Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1870), 1878-01-28 page 1

11 1 VOL. XXXIX. COLUMBUS, MONDAY, JANUAKY 28, 1878. NO. 23. vr aVv SIEBERT & LILLEY, JtLANK BOOK ! A N UFA LTEItEILS. frlnu rN.ltiuilrrN, Ntnlloiicraand I -i;al Blank rnbllNhers. BOOK BINDING IJI evei-y Descnptton, by the Etlmcm of Singh Yoltmt. Opera House ap4 Building (Up Stairs), COLUMBUS. FALL AND WINTER WOOLENS. GEO. T. DUVALL, Merchant Tailor! 157 MOUTH JIIGH ST. au!8 ly MODDIE, HUBBAHD &. CO BANKERS, 61 SOUTH HIGH STREET. jy9tflp EORGE W. LEASON, Bookseller, Stationer & Newsdealer, OO SOUTH HIGH ST., (Opposite Slate Mouse) ' Xke best J1LA1VK BOOHS. The beet WRITING PAPER. Xbe best kinds or IKK. The foestMCCILAGE. The best GOL1) PENS. The best of ETerrtliliiK,al (he lowest prices. Diaries, Almanacs, Firewhle Games, Etc., Etc. ONi.-: High, Pearl hiiiI (Impel SIM. IOMI.Y. A. W. rRAKCUCO. COMLY & FRANCISCO, I'Uiu.isimis anu rRopftiKTons. A. W. FltANCISCO, Uenoral Manager. LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY. Conifress. Jah. 26 Senate The Senate was not in session. house. The day was spent in committee of tbe Whole, in debate on the remonetiza-tion of silver and the repeal of tbe Resumption act. Indications for the Tennessee and Ohio Valley Clearing weather, preceded by areas of light rain, colder, northwesterly winds and higher pressure. Gold cloBed in New York Saturday at 101. Fnrnnce Hem.. Logan Sentinel Jan. 24,) The Bessie Furnace at Straiteville went into blast on Monday last, and in now making firat class iron. The Winona furnace will go into blast in ten or twelve daya. The Monday Creek Iron company's furnace will go into blast as soon rb the railroad can he completed to it. The Thomas Iron Works ie doing better than ever. On Monday it manufactured twentyone tons of foundry iron. The Akron furnace is doing exceedingly well, making a large quantity of good foundry iron. The Oilen furnace is running along Bmoothly, but not doing anylhingto brag on, A special report of the InBtirance Commission of Connecticut on the condition of tbe Charter Oak Life Inaurance company shows that in the early daya of the corporation, of the capital stock of $200,000 only $20,000 was paid in cash, the rest by stockholders' notes bearing no interest. The company, soon after its organization, began paying eight per centum interest on the entire capital stock, and in 18G8 covered tbe $180,000 of notes from surplus earnings, . From that year, to 1874 the dividends gave the stockholders eighty per centum per annum on what they actually paid in, and for previous years the dividends varied from ten to Bixty per centum. It is now proposed to buy back ex-Qovernor Jewell's stock and make the company a mutual one, Children's parties often prepare the way for children's funerals. The English health officer for Marylebone, in his report on the sanitary condition of the parish in December, condemns the pernicious practice of giving children's parties during the holidays. He thinks that such gatherings affords the parents more enjoyment than the children, and that they are not unfrequently the means by which infectioua diseases, and notably whooping cough, are spread. A lady recently gave a children's party in the parish, and among the fifteen or sixteen little ones present there was a lad who was observed to cough violently. Twelve children and two nurse girls, who were in the party at the time, caught the disease of whooping cough from him, and in two instances death resulted. Brown Coble, a colored preacher, has been sentenced by the Supreme Court of Tennessee to be hanged at Winchester on March 14, for the murder of Felix Gardner on June 23, 1870. He asserted hie innocence when asked if he had anything to Bay why the sentence should not be pronounced. The cause of the murder was, Gardner charged Coble with intimacy with bis wife. BY TELEGRAPH TO TBS OHIO STATU JOVSKAl WASHINGTON. 8ILVEB MASS MEETING. Washinoton. Jan. 27. Hon. Thomas Ewing has accepted an invitation to ad dress a mass meeting in favor of the re mnnelizition of silver, and to discuss the effects of contraction and resumption, to be nem in cooper Institute, INew. York, next rveunesaay evening. Heveral other mem. bers of Congress have been invited In ail. dress the meeting, among them Senators J ones, ot .Nevada: Jones, of Florida: Voor. hees, Gordon, Merrimon, Mathews, and Representatives Bland, Butler, Bright, Kelly, and others, some of whom will be present if their public duties will permit. INVESTIGATIONS. Representative Glover will to-morrnw introduce a bill to amend the revised statutes relative to investigations bv Con gressional committees, bo as to authorizs any member to administer oaths to wit nesses and provide for the immediate arrest of witnesses failing to appear; also that witnesses refusine to testify, shall forthwith be placed in custody nf the oBrgeant-ai-Arms wunout waiting for the House to order his arrest, and his con ci . ... tumacy shall as soon as practicable be reported to tbe Houpe for its action. Tl e bill makes the refusal to testify contemnt of authority of either house, punishable wim not more man tpiuuu tine, or imprisonment not more than one year. both in the discretion of the House or Senate. It also revives the provision of the act of January 24, 1857, exempting from all penalties witnesses who may criminate themselves in testifying before committees and forbids the dis charge of witnesses in the several Departments of the Government; who may testify concerning abuses, corruption, ex travagance or unlawful or immoral acts of oppression, extortion, or other official misconduct, within one year from the time of testifying, or without at least six months' notice of such removal, including thirty days' leave of absence, with py and payment in full for services rendered by such persons. A penalty is provided for violation of this prohibition. Committees are empowered to impose secrecy on witnesses concerning the nature of their testimony. This aims to prevent unfounded charges against innocent persons from being circulated before examination by committees. Penalties are also imposed on persons attempting to induce witnesses to refuse to appear or testify, or otherwise conspire to prevent the committees from ascertaining facts. Witnesses are exempted from arrest hy any authority, while coming, going or attending committees. The biil abolishes the responsibility of contumacious witnesses to any court, the punishment to be in flicted by that house of whose authority the witness is in contempt. RAILROAD EMPLOYES. Representative Whitthorne willto-morrow introduce a bill giving to all laborers and employes of railroads, chartered by Copgress, or which may be engaged in interstate commerce, a lien on the property of the respective companies for wages due, which shall have priority in equity, over the right of all other claims, and which may be enforced by attachment or otherwise in any district Court of the United States, FUNERAL. The funeral of Frederick D. Bluart, Past Grand Sire of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, took place this afternoon from Odd Fellows' Hall, and whs largely attended by the members of the order of the District of Columbia, and Virginia and Maryland. Among the prominent Odd Fellows were Grand Sire Stokes, and Past Grand Sires Moore, of this District; Durham, of Kentucky; Nicholson, of Pennsylvania, and Sheilock, of Ohio. DEATH OP JOHN B, KERR. Hon. John B. Kerr died suddenly this morning at bis residence in this city. He was a native of Maryland, son of United States Senator John Leeds Kerr, and was himself a member of Congress previous to 1850. President Filmore appointed him Minister to Central America. SUDDEN DEATH. John M. Van Bnskirk, prominently connected with the Columbia Bank Note company, of Washington, died here this morning after two days' illness of pneumonia. His generous nature and rare qualities as a friend endeared him to many who will long cherish his memory. FOliEIGN. Reported Slipilng of Hie Peace Preliminaries.London, Jan. 27. A Constantinople correspondent says : The Government has received a telegram to the effect that the preliminaries of peace have been signed, and that the Turkish delegates and the Grand Duke Nicholas would reach Adri-annple Saturday. The same correspondent stales that En-land bad the Porte's permission to enter the Dardanelles. The Post publishes the f allowing as an oflicial version of the preliminary conditions of peace: First The autonomy for .Bulgaria (boundaries not denned), under a Governor to be appointed ac cording to the stipulations of the Conalantinnple conference, the Turkish military forces to be withdrawn to certain localities to be determined upon. Second The independence of Roumania, with compensation for territory near the mouths of Danube, which she will make over to Russia. I.oril Derby and tlio Supplementary Vote. London, Jan. 28. The morning papers publish tbe following official announcement: "We are authorized to state that after explanation B with his colleagues and the Btoppage of the fleet in BeBika Bay, Lord Derby, who had offered his resignation at the name time as Lord Carnarvon, continues in office." The Standard understands that Lord Derby is not opposed to the supplementary vote. The newspapers publish "whips" from both sides, requesting the presence of their supporters for a division on the supplementary vote to night, The ministerial "whip" is very urgent, and says a division of the greatest importance ie certain. Cabinet Cnnncll Contradictions. London, Jan. -7. A Cabinet council was held to-day. All the Ministers were present, except Lord Cairns and the Duke of Richmond, who are in the country. The Agence Russe contradicts the rumors that the Russians are marching on Gallopili and that the peace conditions contain special arrangement relative to the Suiz canal, The Montenegro Military. Raqusa, Jan, 27. Montenegrins Saturday captured, after a violent bombardment, three fortified islands in Lake Scutari and were preparing to attack the important fortress of Zibliac to-day. The French Squadron, Toulon, Jan. 27. A division of the French Mediterranean squadron left for Levant to-day. GRIME AND CASUALTY. Attempt to Bob a Train of Cur.. Topeka, Ks,, Jan. 27. There was a daring attempt to rob a passenger train on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad, this morning. Between three and four o'clock Ave armed and masked men entered the Btation at Kinsley, Kansas, capturing A. Kincaid, the night tele graph operator, who was ordered to open the safe. He refused to do bo, although his life was threatened. The west bound express train arrived at thin time and the operator, by a desperate effort, broke loose and ran to a hotel near by, arousing the inmates, A volley of pistol shots was fired into it, and as the train stopped Con ductor J, W. Mai lory was met by two of the robbers, who presented pistols to bis head and ordered him into the baggage car. He stepped in and closed the door, in stantly starting the train by pulling the bell cord, Mallory and the naggage- master then armed themselves with carbines, carried in the car, and then stopped the train. After running about a mile from the station they went back into the coaches with their arms, but found the robbers were not on the train, and the passengers had not been disturbed. Im mediately after the train started, the rob bers, reported to be ten or niteen in num ber, mounted their horses and rode off ramdlv toward the Arkansas river. A party was at once organized to go in pursuit, and started only two or three miles behind tne robbers. A second par ty started at 7:30 with fresh horses and provisiors and the chances are good that the robbers will be captured. 1 he Super intendent ot tne railroad has also Bent a request to the commanding officer at Fort Uadge lor a parly of soldiers to join in pursuit. An answer has been received that a (quad of cavalry have been sent with a wagon ot supplies, Present indi cations are that Kinsley is an unhealthy country for train robbers. At 3:45 p. m. one of the pursuing party returned, with the report that the robbers had crossed the Arkansas river about nine miles west of Kinsley. Cars Bobbed. Trenton, N. J.. Jan. 27. Early this morning as the Philadelphia through freight train waB passing the coaling sta tion on the Pennsylvania railroad, three miles from Trenton, it was broken into by thieves and a large quantity of silks, clothes, linen, cigars and other goods thrown out, loaded on a wagon by an ac complice, and taken away. SUMMARY UF SUNDAY'S NEWS. The pension list for the year is $28.- 000,000. The Greenbaekers of Michigan are to hold a convention in Jackson, February 7. There are one hundred and seventy pa pers in Texas, and the majority are being published for the love of it, A Convention of State Agricultural Societies will be held in Washington, on the third Tuesday of February. The strike among the coal miners of West Virginia, has ended and the men have gone to work at the old prices. The cost of the Nez Perces war was $1,-000,000 in money, not to speak of tbe lives lost. Put this down to the credit of the army economists, Governor Williams commuted the sentence of Gillooly, who wsb to be hung Wednesday next, at Kokomo, Indiana, to imprisonment for life. Up to date the popular subscription to the iour-per-cent. loan, of which the Treasury Department has been advised, amounts to $2,025,000. The hearing in regard to the appointment of a Receiver for the Charter Oak Life Insurance company has been postponed to February 22. At Reading. Pennsylvania, Hezskiah Woolin.Johu iSquint, Thomas Francis, John Noll and Aaron Diase were convicted Saturday of participation in the railroad riots of last Bummer. According to the returns made to the State Board of Agriculture, the number of acres of winter wheat and rye sown in Illinois during the past fall was 2,032,843, against 1,729,296 acres during the previous year. Friday night Dr. John M. Laurence and Rachel Jackson, only daughter of Andrew Jackson, adopted son of the ex-President, celebrated their silver wedding at the Hermitage, the residence of Old Hickory, near Nashville, The new Territory of Lincoln, which it is proposed to carve out of Dakota, will contain seventyfive thousand square miles, and at this time has fifteen thousand inhabitants. It will, like Minnesota, be a great wheat country. On the 25th the Endowment House at Salt Lake was opened to accommodate persons from a distance to take polygamous wives. Between thirty and forty went through, one Mormon taking two women, said to bs mother and daughter The largest plow ever manufactured has just been turned out of a factory at Stockton, California, The mold-board is eight feet long, and the furrow which is cut is 35 inches wide. It is designed for work upon tbe tule lands and requires twelve stout oxen to pull it. Two girls of Richmond, Indiana, have been ruined recently by a couple of young men of high Blending. They invited the girls out for a walk, gave them drugged wine and then accomplished their purpose. The men have left the city. The names of all the parties are withheld. A sad story comes from Texas. A Miss Moore was preparing for marriage, and invited a friend, MisB Williams, to assist her, In rummaging through a drawer an old pistol was carelessly handled by Miss Williams, resulting in tbe Bhooting and instant death of Miss Moore. She was buried on the day that was to have been her wedding day, and tbe other young lady, who wts the innocent cause of it, hss become insane. Over one million trade dollars have been sent East during the present month, for domestic circulation. The profit in shipping trade dollars to the Eastern States is three per cent. Secretary Sherman haa the matter under consideration, and it is probable that the trade dollar coinage will for a time be wholly suspended, or the Philadelphia Mint will be opened for the same coinage, in order to place Eastern holders of bullion upon an equality with lbs Pacifio coast, There have been introduced in the present Congress thus far about "500 bills, of which about 1500 are private bills for the relief of indemnifications of persons in the South. It is estimated that the total amount of the claims is not lees than $7,000,000. In addition to these bills there are about 2500 petitions from persons in the South, asking for about $3,-000,000 more. Give the Democratic party a fair chance and there will be no occasion to worry about any surplus in the treasury. Indianapolis Journal. Oflicial information from General Miles's post at Fort Keogb, received at Bismarck, Dakota, states that Sitting Bull is at Frenchman's creek with over 1000 lodges, including escaped Nez Perces and refugees from the agencies. These last number 800 warriors, and Bitting Bull's own camp 2300. All are well arm ed. The principal hostile chiefs are with him Black Moon, Four Horns, Long Dog and Red Bear. Two companies of infantry have been sent to Fort Peck to hold it. Indians from Sitting Bull's camp have been seen within ten miles of fort reck, and an attack upon both that and f ort iveogh is among the possibilities. General Miles has only 600 men. A special from Washington to the Cincinnati Commercial of yesterday says: "The Matthews silver resolution will be reported to the House by tbe Clerk of the Senate on Monday for concurrence. The purpose is to call it up as Boon as it reach es the House, and to move its passsge under suspension of the rules, which will cut off debate. Its friends think it will receive the necessary twothirds vote. The opponents of the measure say they can and will prevent it from being taken up. In the first place, they hold that a motion to go to the Speaker's table will not be in order until after the usual call of States for bills and joint resolutions, and the subsequent call of committees for reports. It will not be difficult, therefore, for the opposition to consume the entire day, by having read each of the documents presented under these calls. On Tuesday, however, the table can be reached by a msiority vote, and in the same way all preceding measures can then be laid aside and the Matthews resolution taken up and put upon its passage. This will undoubtedly be done, as it is deemed important to nave a vote upon the question at tbe ear liest practicable moment." The Texas border troubles occupied the attention of the House committees onror-eign Affairs and Militarv Affairs Saturday Major Price,oi the Eighth cavalry.testified belore the lormer, and J. U. inciter, who was before the Foreign Affairs committee Friday, testified at great length before the committee on Military A Hairs. A large part of his examination was directed to show the lawless condition of society in the Hio lirande counties of lexas. and that people in the border towns of Mexico are kept in a good deal of alarm and irri tation by swaggering officers of Texas otate troops and some United States sub altern officers indulging in wild threats of invasion and conquest, lucker acknowl' edged the furnishing of arms and ammu nition to Diaz when he was preparing his revolutionary movement. He likewise admitted the payment of a certain sum of money to Ford on behalf of the Mexi can Government, and Ford has been be fore tbe committee on Foreign Affairs. He is familiarly known on the border as "Old Rip." He has held public meetings, and declared that he was authorized to raise a regiment of Slate tronpB. Ohio. Terrill's trial at New Lexington will commence on the 2oth of February. There is a proposition on foot to instl tute a normal school at Upper Sandusky. About 17,000 head of hogs have been packed this season at Washington Court House, a man named Joseph decker, was drowned at DelphoB on the 25lb inst., by tailing into the canal. G. W. Callender, of Painaville, committed suicide, on the 24th. bv haneinu nimseti in his nam. Thomas C. Livingston, of Morrow county, was killed by falling from a rail- roaa oringe at Iowa city, on Saturday ISBt. In Preble county -the other day, while a man named Spelluian was removing a load lroin a gun, lie was dangerously if not latany wounded. Dr. Frank II. Knarn, who last Bum mer shot and killed Dr. Knott, of Benton. Hancock county, has been acquitted of me cnarge oi murder. William Ditmers, an old well dieer ol Dayton, was killed on the 26th by be. ing BtiucK on tne Head by a heavy stone accidentally dropped into a well he was engaged in digging. A boy named Thompson, residing near West Sonore, Preble county, while currying a vicious horse the other day, was kicked in the head, from the effect of which he died. The parties charged with being impli. cated in the attempt to wreck a passenger train on the Dayton and Michigan road, near Columbus Urove, on the 20th, have been bound over to the Court of Common Pleas in the sum of $1000 each. While the evening freight train EiBt was passing JNorth Lewiaburg station on the 20th, a fifteen-year-old daughter of m. crown, me section foreman, was run over by the train, cutting her left arm off, and otherwise dangerously injuring her. ineiuiie town ot i-imore, unio, near Toledo, is terribly excited over tbe denat ure, Tuesday, the 23 J., of Amos Day, a heretofore highly respected and well-to-do citizsn, with Miss Alice Sarnes, a domestic in his family. Before leaving, Day Bold everything he could turn into money, leaving debts to the amount of $10,000. He leaves a wife and five children, the youngest but two months old. Representatives of the Trotting Associations of Youngatown, Warren, Akron, Massillnn and Lotidonville met in Akron on the 24th and formed the Eastern Ohio Trotting Circuit, with E. B. Bailees, of MasBillnn, as President, and A. T. Shaffer, of Youngstown, Secretary. The circuit will open at Loudonville the first week in June, and the races will ho held at the towns named, closing with Youngstown, the first week in July. A special dispatch from Waverly, dated the 2Ulh, says: "Tom Woodburn, who was stabbed last Saturday by a railroader known as Kentucky Ben, died to-night. Two men from Perry township were lodged in jail last night for being 'too much married, A man named Koberts, from Milllin township, was committed to jail last night, charged with bastardy, by a Miss Watts. Pike county Jail is overrun with prisoners, four of whom are Bure for the Penitentiary," Forelirn, The total Russian losses in Europe to January 5 were 80,435 men. The newspapers state semi-official intelligence announcing that the Russian conditions of peace will include the opening of the Straits to Russian war ships. This concession is granted by Turkey, Admiral Hornby took the British fleet up to the mouth of the Dardanelles, where, at the telegraph Btation, he received the countermand. He did not, therefore, proceed to the forts, but returned to Besik:a bay, The French Government has ordered two advice boats to proceed to Constantinople, The commander of the French iron-clad at Smyrna has been ordered to hold himself in readiness to protect French subjects in Constantinople, if necessary, ' A pptcial dispatch from Chalcios, Greece, says : The transport of troops, artillery and ammunition to the frontier is proceeding vigorously. Everything indicates immediate hostilities. All infantry have left for Lamia. Great enthusiasm prevails. A dispatch from the United Stales Vice Consul at Shanghai, asking for funds, says: "An appalling famine is raging throughout four provinces of North China. Nine millions of people are reported destitute. Children are daily sold in the markets for food." The Forte has received no news of any armistice having been signed. The Russian headquarters, accompanied by the lurkiah plenipotentiaries, have lett J.aa-sanlik, continuing their advance. The foreign ambassadors are still unacquainted with the Russian conditions of peace, but they have been communicated to the Turkish Parliament at a secret sitting. The Golos haa an important article, suggesting measures to retrieve Russia's financial position after the war. It concludes by advocating partial disarmament, and Bays : Even if such a course is not decided upon by the conference for the whole of Jiuropa, Kusaia might adopt it with impunity, considering her admira ble veteran army inured to war by a diffi cult campaign. The rumor that Spain will sign the treaty with San Domingo at the end of this month, assuming a Protectorate over that island, causes great excitement in San Domingo tand Hayti, and serves to further increase the unpopularity of Pres ident Baes. The rumor is somewhat strengthened by the appointment of Span iah Consuls at several ports of the Domin ican Republic. Trustworthy advices from Vienna indi cate that Austria also had begun to look for something more tangible than the gen eral assurances of Russia's good intentions, and had taken steps to obtain at least a formal diplomatic pledge that the interests of the Monarchy should suffer no detriment. ihe communications exchanged are said to have shown a more earneBt desire than ever, on the part of Russia, to maintain the good understanding hitherto prevailing, and it is believed the present exchange of views will lead to a satisfactory issue, Germany, also, according to a special dispatch from Berlin, has, within a few days, warned Russia afresh that the terms of feice must be submitted to the Powers for approval. The North German Gazette, reviewing the proceedings in the Eoglish Parliament, says: We note the termination of this English episode of intervention, which ended as quickly as it began, with the greatest satisfaction, especially as it afforded a fresh opportunity of proving the unshakable understanding existing between the three Imperial Powers. All the machinations aiming directly or in directly at undermining the alliance of the three Jsmperors, which is tbe most effectual guarantee of European peace, are again frustrated in this phase of the crisis by the loyalty of Russia, who remained in intimate communication with Austria throughout, and by Austria's un shakable adherence to its former Eastern policy. Treasury Statement. The following announcement of funds in the United States TrcSBurv was made Saturday : In United Slates bonds to secr.re ffational bank circulation 8340,075,050 United states bonds to secure pub lic iil.,u-iih i.,,ui,i,u!;i; United 8tstes bonds deposited tor circulation for the week endmg today 'J8, United Stated bonds held forcircula-lalion, withdrawn in the wook ending to day a,;, National baLk eireulaiion Olltslnnd- ing, gold notes 1,432,120 Currency notea 31ti,Mn,H,",4 Internal revenue ilitf1l'I.lii,07ti uueioms 47,110 Receipt of National batik notes lor the week euduic to-day 5.470.000 Comjuired wilh the corresponding (, en uu i a.iyRxr. ................... ,.- u Rei'etpta to-day '75:l.lJ'iO Currency 3,000, 782 Special limd for redemption oi'truc- tional currency 10,000,000 Special deposit of Iwgai tenders for me reaeniplion ol certibcales ot denosit :IS.00'i.O(lO Coin 1:11,61 ',f.!!6 Including com certificates 4 1 .FiuO.GUU Uutaluuuing legal tenders 34,04,770 ColliNlon lletwccn Mfittc and Fedoral UiliccrN. At one o'clock Saturday Sheriff Hous ton, who had been in the Mew Orleans Custom House for several hours, learning that a Deputy Marshal bad been put in charge of the Collector's office, which was locked and bolted, proceeded to the main duor uf the office, and there informed the Marshal and Deputy Collector Tomlin- son that be bad a writ to execute againat Wells & Co.. whom he bad gocd reaaons to believe were confined in the room, and he desired admittance. This was refused, whereupon the Sheriff, who was accom panied by two Deputies, Btated that he would lorce an entrance. Mr. iomlin- son then summoned the Chief Deputy jyiarstiai, who proceeded to tbe door ot the Collector's office, and there ordered the Sheriff and assistants, as well as the crowd that had gathered, to disband. The Sheriff refused to leave, stating that he was determined to execute the writ of the Court at any hazard, or lie arrested in the attempt. Sheriff Houston then slightly advancing, Deputy Marshal Wurzburger laid hands upon him, and claimed him and his deputies as prisoners. The Sheriff and his party submitted to the arrest, and were taken before Judge Billings, sitting in the United States Cir cuit Court, but the latter said he had nothing to do with the matter, as the parties had not been arrested by virtue of any procesB from his Court. Mr. Wurlzburger then took his prisoners before United States Commissioner Lane, where he sta ted the case, when Mr. Lane requested him to reduce the subject matter to an af fidavit. Great excitement prevails about the Custom House, Mr. Tomlinson. the Collector's corre sponding secretary, has made affidavit be fore Commissioner .Lane against Houston for resisting a Custom Hcut-e officer, and bos sent for thecoinmauder of the revenue cutter and a detachment of marines, order ing tbem to bs stationed at his door, through which a passage has to be effect ed to reach the Collector's office. General Sheldon and Mr. Dolarven ap pearing before Commissioner Lane, and denying the jurisdiction of his Court, asked for Houston's release. Mr. Gurley, Assistant District Attor ney, asked a continuance until Monday. Lane refused to grant any continuance, but released Houston on his own recogni zance, who ib understood to have immediately dispatched a subordinate to bring an armed lorce to lorce an entrance to the Custom House, The entrance to the Collector's office is patrolled by armed marines from the rev enue cutter John A. Dix. They are there as the United States Marshal's force. and under command of General Whar ton. The report that an attorney for the Returning Board had made a motion before Judge Billings for a writ of certiorari is not true. The following is telegraphed. New OaLKANs, January 20. To Hon. Charles Devons, Attorney General of mo united -states, nnsnington u. u.: Four persons J. Madison Wells, Thomas C. Anderson, G. Cassanave and L. M, Kenner who are under an information for felony, under the laws of this State, forfeited their recognizance, and have, I am informed, taken shelter in the Custom Houbb of thin cit y Writs for their arrest are in the hands of the Sheriff, and he went with the writs to arrest them. Understanding that they were shut up in a room of the building, he was about to force an entrance for the purpose of arresting them, when he was himself arrested, as I am informed, upon an affidavit that he threatened to open tbe door by force. I am not aware of any cession nf the ex clusive jurisdiction on this building, nor of any law that would give immunity to offenders against the State law within its walls. Please inform me whether the General Government has authorized or will sanction this conduct. H, N. Ogden, Att'y Gen, Louisiana. About ten o'clock at night Marshal Wharton received an answer to his dispatch from the Attorney General, in structing him not to interfere with the execution of the writs of the State courts. Sheriff Houston was notified, and found Anderson, Kenner and Casanave in the Collector's otbee, from whence they were taken to tbe parish prison, where they will remain until they furnish new bonds of $5000 each. Wells was not in the Custom House, but was Been on the morning train of the Mobile road. It ia believed he is still in the State, and will furnish bonds at once. A Lane Without Bottom. Virginia (Nov.) Enterprise. Pyramid Lake is nearly forty miles in length by from nfteen to twenty in width It -is but 4000 feet above the level of the sea, while Lake Tahoe is 6216 feet above the sea level. The lake contains inanv islands, several of which, near the mid dle of tbe lake, rise to the hight of some hundreds ot feet, and are pyramidal in form and light gray in color. One tall spire, seen far down to the northward, where tbe lake seems shoreless, is perfectly wnue. A large island, probably the largest in the luke, contains five or Bix square miles of comparatively level ground, ami is covered with vegetation. Upon this island a number of goats were turned loose some years since, and they have increased at a wonderful rate, so that they may now bs seen feeding upon every hill, ihey need no care, winter or sum mer, and are about as wild as the goats lound by i-tobinson Crusoe on the island of Juan Fernandez. Tbe lake is of im mense depth; it is said that near the cen ter buo fathoms ol line failed to bnd bot tom. Tbe waters of the lake are brackish, except immediately about the point where the waters of the Truckee river flow into it. Owing to the brackishnees of its waters. to its great depth, or to both depth and brackiahnefs, the lake never freezes. Although the lake is generally very rough, owing to its being exposed to sweeping westerly winds, the Piute Indians fearlessly navigate it in all directions and almost at all times on their tule rafts. These rafts are often nothing more than a single bundle of tules, but when the raft is intended to accommodate more than one person two or three bundles are lash ed together and drawn into the shape of a clumsy boat. Near shore they generally pole these craft about, but they frequent ly hoist a sail made of a blanket aud fearlessly steer away so far out upon the lake that only their sail remains visible, ihese tule boats very closely resemble the cata marans use'd by the natives of Borne of the islands of the South Pacific. They are so buoyant that it is impossible to sink them. Far out in the lake among islands they Bet their long lines, strung full of hooks. These they visit on their rafts, and sometimes bring in not less than three hundred pounds of trout at ons trip. The trout are sold at ten cents per pound at the lake, therefore it will readily be seen that fishing is a profitable business. At the north or lower end of the lake are a d zen or more islands of rock of peculiar and picturesque form. These are of solid rock, and are from 300 fo 400 feet in height. At a distance they look like monster mushrooms or eggR standing on eleins such eggs as-aiight have been produced by the roe, that bird of ancient times, one wing of which, according to Ibn.EI-Wardee, was 10,000 fathoms long. it is impossible toclimb these rocks, aB, wbile their stems form perpendicular walls, it is beyond the power of man to ascend those parts where they begin to swell out into domes. Mr. Stiles says he has sounded the lake at the baee of Borne of these fantastic islands, and, with the longest line at his command, was unable to find bottom. One of the largest of these islands, the tall white one seen from toward the head of the lake, ia not wholly perpendicular on all sides. On one of itB sides there iB a steep slope which it is thought might be scaled in bo me way. A story iB current at the lake that John C. Fremont, the great "Pathfinder," found a path to the top of this rock. It is believed that he left his field glasses and some other instruments of value on the summit of the rock, and many attempts have been made to climb it in order to secure these articles. The last attempt to scale the pyramid was by a Bailor, who used a long rope, throwing it upward until it caught upon a projecting point of rock, then drawing himself up, again throwing hia rope to a rock above. He reached a height of about 150 feet, when he was unable to find any more projections over which to throw his rope, and came near never reaching level ground alive. He was obliged to descend in the same way as he effected the ascent, and when he finally got down he was completely exhausted; his hands were bleeding, and he was cut and scratched from head to foot. The fishermen have now concluded that the only way in which the field glasses and other plunder can be secured is by attaching a line to a rock afid then firing it over the top of the pyramid from a mortar. One of the small rocky islands of the lake is alive with rattlesnakes. It is supposed that the first of the stock were wafted to the island on a raft of tules or driftwood. Doc. Wood, who has visited the island, saya there is "millions in it." The reptiles have their homes among the rocks, and live on tbe eggs and young of waterfowl, and upon the dead fish that are cast ashore on the island. Mr. Wood Bays that the stories that have been told of the snakes rushing in a body, hissing and rattling, to attack any man on the island, are untrue. He found that, whenever they were disturbed, they ran away and concealed themselves in the crevices of the rocks, just as would have been done by any other Bnakes. Ifoiisc Plant. But.few things, says the Times, of Phil-adelphi, add more to the cheerfulness of a sitting room than a few plants, in healthy vigorous growth, Thess may be of various kinds, according to the taste of individuals. Geraniums, pinks, ivy and other common II were, are easily and cheaply grown. It surprising what handsome foliage and what quantities of llow-erB can be produced in the sitting room, under the care of a person who loves flowers. Such a person needs but little instruction, for what is done seems intuitivethe right thing at the right time. We have seen even the camelia grown finely in a sitting room, yet this was a rare case. The use of novelties always furnishes increased interest to the culture of flowers, and many noveltioB are readily procurable. For instance, take a large sweet potato and place it in the mouth of a fruit can. or a small earthen jar filled with rain water, allowing the potato to dip into the water, Bay two or three inches. Set in a warm, sunny spot, and soon it will sprout. Break off all but three or four shoots, and allow these to droop or train on a trelliis, or in any other way that seems desirable. Nothing more is necessary to be done than to supply additional water as fast as evaporation diminishes the depth in the jar. The sweet potato ia a vine, and a very pretty one. A sponge filled with the seed of cress and kept moist will soon appear a ball of living green. A pot, or better, a pan filled with bulbs of oxalit offers a pretty sight. Whatever is selected, however, remember not to give too much heat. A cool temperature at night and sunlight and warmth by day, with the ordinary care which a lover of flowers would exer cise, insures success. JNot every one can have a greenhouse: but any one who chooses may share a portion of its deligbti in his or her own house. How a SlanTuked flare of Ilia Baby. Scribnor for February.! In spite of all the statements to the contrary, there are men who help take care of their children. They are the kindest and best husbands in the world. They do not wish to see their wives overburdened with care and worry, and they intend to help them a great deal, and actually do. Yet it can not be denied, that their opinion concerning the value of their services and their wives' opinion on the same subject do not exactly coincide. One of these good husbinds will help dress the children for breakfast, and speak of it with a grandly virtuous air, while the fact is that he only washed the face of one while his wife washed and dreBsed the other t'iree. He helps to get the children ready for church; that is, he buttons up Dick's boots, and helps Jenny put on her gloves alter he has leis urely and comfortably dressed himself. while his wife ties sashes, and hunts up odd gloves, and puts on collars, and curls one child's hair and washes another's hands, and in the intervals "does up" her own hair, and saves tbe baby Irom tbe ra. zor, and Jenny's best bonnet from the ba- by. tie stands patiently V in the hall as the bells begin to toll, ami mildly calls, "It is getting late, Maria." Which fact Maria knows as well as he doeB, for her bands are trembling so with nervousness and haste that Bhe can hardly put a sin gle pin in its right place. J ust as the last strokes of the bell are sounding they hurry off to church, losing entirely the calming influence which comes Irom a leisurely walk on a fine Sunday mornine. He takes the opportunity to remark, with just a Bhade of reproof in his gentle tones, 1 can i understand why it takes you bo long to get ready. It really does Beem as if with sb much as I do to help vou. we need not be obliged to hurry Boat the last minute. I don't like to see you go up the aisle with your face as red as a lobster." which, of course, iB very soothing to Maria's irritated nerves. The father cares for the baby at night in pretty much the same fashion. The mother has lifted the child into her own bed, and back into its cradle again, in the vain hope that in one place or the other he will go to sleep, has brought "drinks of water" for him, rocked the cradle and sung to its uneasy occupant softly and leepily for an hour, till finally she thinks that if she is to be in thissemi-amphibious stale, half out of bed ard half in, tbe air from the open wiuduw is too cool for her. She knows if she tries to shut it herself the little tyrant will instantly miss her presence and be ten times wider awake than ever, and all the hour's singing and rocking will be labor lost. So, with much regret she softly asks John to get up aud close the window. He has ain remarkably still and breathed rather heavily, and is somewhat difficult to arouse for a man who afterward declares he was wide awake all the time. But like the good husband he is, he cheerfully closes the window and gels an extra blanket for the baby, and pleasantly aeks, as he settles down into the pillows ugain, "What makes the baby so uneasy to-night?" Ho manifests a strange iudifferencs to his wife's reply, and in fact nothing more is heard of him till morning, while hia wife sleepily and painfully works away for an hour longer. But at breakfaet, with what calm complacency does he speak of the trouble the baby made us last night, with an "us" fairly editorial in its comprehensiveness. The next night he goes into a room by himself to sleep. He "can't stand it to have his rest broken bo," but adds generously, "I'll take caio of him the next night." And so be does till about twelve o'clock, when the baby wakes and cries. For ten minutes he tries faithfully to get him tosleep again, and then ignominious-ly retreats and calls for "mamma," BlonliiK op Stumps. It has been demonstrated that stumps can be blown out of the ground much cheaper than pulled out. In an experiment lately tried, five stumps were operated on, the first being oak. A hole was punched under it between two projecting roots. Then a cartridge of dynamite about two inches long, and an inch in diameter, was ineerted in the whole, which was made with a crowbar; and on being fired, the stump was blown out, Next, a chestnut stump was Berved in the same way; and it was blown, as the report says, "to atoms." Other stumps which would have cost a dollar each to remove in any other way, were thrown out skyward. A charge was put under a rock of about two tons weight, and it was thrown from its bed and shattered to pieces. With larger charges, stumps were blown 125 feet. Excuse for Necond Marrlnft-e. A negro minister who married rather Booner after the death of his wife than some of his sisters thought proper and becoming, excused himself as follows: "My dear brcderen and sisters, my grief was greater dan I could bear. I turned ebery way for piece and comfort, but none came. I sarched do Scriptures from Gin-isee to Ksbelalion, and found plenty promises to the widder,but nary one to de widderer, So I took it dat the good Lord didn't waste sympathy on a man when it was in his power to comfort hisself; and habin a fusB-gale chance to marry in de Lord, I did so, and would do so again. Besides, brederen, I consider dat poor Patsey was juss as dead as Bhe would eber be." Golden Kutes. For Fathers of Families Never waste money on self indulgences. Better give al 1 your available spare cash to your wives and daughters, who will know how to spend it profitably at the milliners' and dressmakers'. For Mothers and Daughters Never trouble yourselves with small accounts or paltry calculations. It is the business of the head of the family to earn money yours to spend it. For Sons Never know your own father out of the house. It is not considered genteel. Never keep a cash-book or diary, but draw checks on the parental banker to any extent that may be necessary for your expenses. fSinohinir Iho sjnrcnllo. One of the members of the Illinois Horticultural Society described, at a meeting of that society, his mode of repelling the curcullo by smoking it out, He placed a quart of gas tar in a kettle, and throwing in some ehavingB set them on tire. The thick black smoke settled on both fruit and leaves, without apparent injury to them. No ctirctilios were Been. The operation was repealed twice a week till the plums were nearly grown, and they ripened well. This mode may answer, but the process of jarring down when properly conducted, by pounding on iron plugs set in the limbs or trunk, would probably be easier and cheaper. New Advertisements. Business Chance ! TP YOU ARB LOOKING FOR BUSINESS, i.ou ouij cue . a. msmvAi, KOOra otj ot. Jiiarl8 Hotel He comes well reuommeoded by responsible parties ia this State who now fully Ruarautee the truth of the etatement, viz: That lie can show you the bet paying busmen a In this couutry. It is certainly woriTi inventi-gatiug. Call before Wednesday. jan28 'Zi LEGAL NOTICE. SAKAH SAMM'S AND ANJALINB WEST BR-VULT. who reside In thn Utatn nf Tnwa: and Kasnlea Upurgeon, who residH in theBtate of Illinois, hairs at law of Peter Westervelt, deceased, will take notice that Lewis R Good-speed, executor of the last will and testament ol Pater Westervelt, deceased, on the 6ih day of January, A. D. 1878, filed hia petition in the Probate Court, within and for the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, alleging that the personal eHiate of said decedent is insutlicent to pay his debts and the charges of administering his estate; that he died siezed in fee simp e of the following described real estate, situate in said county, to. wit: The I'our-ninth share of lot No. 44, in ihe tillage of Wester-yille,;oliio, as described on the plat of the new survey of said village, made A. 1). 18o; and that Hannah Westervelt, as widow cf said do cedent, is entitled to dower in said promises. The prayer of said petition is for the assignment of dower to said Hannah Westervelt, and for a sale of said premises, subject to such dower estate, for the payment of the debts and charges aloresaid. Said petition will be for hoaring on the 4th day of March, A. D. 1878, or OS soon thereafter as leavo can be obtained. L. It. GOODSPERD, Executor of Peter Westervelt, deceased. A. Animus, Att'y. jan28 dlttebO w3w T II U Connecticut MUTUAL Life Insurance Company, OP H1BTFOBD, CONN, Organized 184C. Charter Perpetual. Met Aei)elslJau.l,lS76,81i,463,0u'G.O'3 RECEIVED IN 1S76. Por Pre. iiilnms.. 8(1,785,120 07 I'arluter-, -at aud Kent 2,893,993 10 8(,10,114 13 831,081,179 00 DISBmSF.Ii IN 1S70. To Policy Holdem 8,018,758 OS This Company is purely mutual, not having a dollar of stock. Its policy holders are tho only members of the Corporation, it ia therefore in effect, a simple partne'shin nf persons for insuring each other's lives. There, being no stock, there can be no sale ot the Company from one set cf owners and managers to another; but itB affairs remain perpetually in the entire control of the members themselves, to elect a board of twelve directors each year. This board meets weekly, and directly supervises all the buBiness of the CompaDy. The Company issues whole life policies wilh oither -nnual prea nuns for life, which it prefers and recommends, or wilh a limited number of pre-niums: it will alBo issue long-term endowments. Experience has shown that these are tho most advantageous forms of policies, both to the individual and to the Company. We stall, therefore, restrict ourselves to them. The surplus earned in any year is returned to the following year, only by reduction of premium, thus limiting the pavments to the ac-tunl current cost of tho Insurance, In thirty years, this association of men, united in interests and purposes, as a single feature m its history, has paid to the representatives of seven thousand ave hundred and sixty members who have died, the vast sum of twenty. five millions one hundred and twenty-nine thoiisa- d five hundred and thirty.. ix dollars - $aa,iso,5Be.oo - as follows: Claims raid in Each Year from Organization, December 15, 1816 1818.. 1847.. 1X48... . 3.800 CO 17,7o'l 00 82,000 00 1810.. Hi), 711) 27 1851 ln.887 60 180,417 00 8'kI 185,462 73 1854 2;,3,12 Ml 1865 2118 0110 03 1850...., 2(18 020 77 1857.. 1858.. 1869, 238,825 00 213,1150 (10 152,919 68 I860 223.4110 00 1801 264,44(1 23 1862 339.601) 00 1803 876,890 0(1 1804 482,387 00 18U5 7118,137 10 186(1 972,632 72 1867 1,1SI,87 08 1868 1,2H0,G75 0(1 I860 1,428,787 00 1870 1,752,369 211 1671 1,792,268 83 1872 2,2119 991 50 1873 2,872,356 17 1874 2, 75,21(1 71 1875 2,673,362 27 1670. 2,271,718 00 Total amount paid to Dec. OL, ISiO .82.1,120,53.6 St Facts and figures like theso commend themselves to the intelligence and Judgment of nil men. They carry conviction upon hare presentation, and need no argument or illustration to demonstrate their significance. JAMES GOODWIN, President. J it COB I.. GREENF, ttcc'y. JOHN JH. TAYIiUIC, Ans'l Sec'y. I. II. WEILS, Sil Asa't Hee'f.Z F.D.nOUGLAHN,Nnptol Agencies GEO. W. FACKLER.Gen'l Ag't, CINCINNATI, O. F. J. EMIEY, Special Agent, COLUMBD8, O. ASBESTOS PIPE COVERING Saves 2S to 30 per cent. In Steam and Fuel. n. w. Iir.miNTi',i a :., octs ltaw 20t lp O Knst Uroail. "- . I The rVdvertising.Uonot. 3tt Jonrnal largeo t circula. any dull r In Orb : I tl Ulu,

11 1 VOL. XXXIX. COLUMBUS, MONDAY, JANUAKY 28, 1878. NO. 23. vr aVv SIEBERT & LILLEY, JtLANK BOOK ! A N UFA LTEItEILS. frlnu rN.ltiuilrrN, Ntnlloiicraand I -i;al Blank rnbllNhers. BOOK BINDING IJI evei-y Descnptton, by the Etlmcm of Singh Yoltmt. Opera House ap4 Building (Up Stairs), COLUMBUS. FALL AND WINTER WOOLENS. GEO. T. DUVALL, Merchant Tailor! 157 MOUTH JIIGH ST. au!8 ly MODDIE, HUBBAHD &. CO BANKERS, 61 SOUTH HIGH STREET. jy9tflp EORGE W. LEASON, Bookseller, Stationer & Newsdealer, OO SOUTH HIGH ST., (Opposite Slate Mouse) ' Xke best J1LA1VK BOOHS. The beet WRITING PAPER. Xbe best kinds or IKK. The foestMCCILAGE. The best GOL1) PENS. The best of ETerrtliliiK,al (he lowest prices. Diaries, Almanacs, Firewhle Games, Etc., Etc. ONi.-: High, Pearl hiiiI (Impel SIM. IOMI.Y. A. W. rRAKCUCO. COMLY & FRANCISCO, I'Uiu.isimis anu rRopftiKTons. A. W. FltANCISCO, Uenoral Manager. LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY. Conifress. Jah. 26 Senate The Senate was not in session. house. The day was spent in committee of tbe Whole, in debate on the remonetiza-tion of silver and the repeal of tbe Resumption act. Indications for the Tennessee and Ohio Valley Clearing weather, preceded by areas of light rain, colder, northwesterly winds and higher pressure. Gold cloBed in New York Saturday at 101. Fnrnnce Hem.. Logan Sentinel Jan. 24,) The Bessie Furnace at Straiteville went into blast on Monday last, and in now making firat class iron. The Winona furnace will go into blast in ten or twelve daya. The Monday Creek Iron company's furnace will go into blast as soon rb the railroad can he completed to it. The Thomas Iron Works ie doing better than ever. On Monday it manufactured twentyone tons of foundry iron. The Akron furnace is doing exceedingly well, making a large quantity of good foundry iron. The Oilen furnace is running along Bmoothly, but not doing anylhingto brag on, A special report of the InBtirance Commission of Connecticut on the condition of tbe Charter Oak Life Inaurance company shows that in the early daya of the corporation, of the capital stock of $200,000 only $20,000 was paid in cash, the rest by stockholders' notes bearing no interest. The company, soon after its organization, began paying eight per centum interest on the entire capital stock, and in 18G8 covered tbe $180,000 of notes from surplus earnings, . From that year, to 1874 the dividends gave the stockholders eighty per centum per annum on what they actually paid in, and for previous years the dividends varied from ten to Bixty per centum. It is now proposed to buy back ex-Qovernor Jewell's stock and make the company a mutual one, Children's parties often prepare the way for children's funerals. The English health officer for Marylebone, in his report on the sanitary condition of the parish in December, condemns the pernicious practice of giving children's parties during the holidays. He thinks that such gatherings affords the parents more enjoyment than the children, and that they are not unfrequently the means by which infectioua diseases, and notably whooping cough, are spread. A lady recently gave a children's party in the parish, and among the fifteen or sixteen little ones present there was a lad who was observed to cough violently. Twelve children and two nurse girls, who were in the party at the time, caught the disease of whooping cough from him, and in two instances death resulted. Brown Coble, a colored preacher, has been sentenced by the Supreme Court of Tennessee to be hanged at Winchester on March 14, for the murder of Felix Gardner on June 23, 1870. He asserted hie innocence when asked if he had anything to Bay why the sentence should not be pronounced. The cause of the murder was, Gardner charged Coble with intimacy with bis wife. BY TELEGRAPH TO TBS OHIO STATU JOVSKAl WASHINGTON. 8ILVEB MASS MEETING. Washinoton. Jan. 27. Hon. Thomas Ewing has accepted an invitation to ad dress a mass meeting in favor of the re mnnelizition of silver, and to discuss the effects of contraction and resumption, to be nem in cooper Institute, INew. York, next rveunesaay evening. Heveral other mem. bers of Congress have been invited In ail. dress the meeting, among them Senators J ones, ot .Nevada: Jones, of Florida: Voor. hees, Gordon, Merrimon, Mathews, and Representatives Bland, Butler, Bright, Kelly, and others, some of whom will be present if their public duties will permit. INVESTIGATIONS. Representative Glover will to-morrnw introduce a bill to amend the revised statutes relative to investigations bv Con gressional committees, bo as to authorizs any member to administer oaths to wit nesses and provide for the immediate arrest of witnesses failing to appear; also that witnesses refusine to testify, shall forthwith be placed in custody nf the oBrgeant-ai-Arms wunout waiting for the House to order his arrest, and his con ci . ... tumacy shall as soon as practicable be reported to tbe Houpe for its action. Tl e bill makes the refusal to testify contemnt of authority of either house, punishable wim not more man tpiuuu tine, or imprisonment not more than one year. both in the discretion of the House or Senate. It also revives the provision of the act of January 24, 1857, exempting from all penalties witnesses who may criminate themselves in testifying before committees and forbids the dis charge of witnesses in the several Departments of the Government; who may testify concerning abuses, corruption, ex travagance or unlawful or immoral acts of oppression, extortion, or other official misconduct, within one year from the time of testifying, or without at least six months' notice of such removal, including thirty days' leave of absence, with py and payment in full for services rendered by such persons. A penalty is provided for violation of this prohibition. Committees are empowered to impose secrecy on witnesses concerning the nature of their testimony. This aims to prevent unfounded charges against innocent persons from being circulated before examination by committees. Penalties are also imposed on persons attempting to induce witnesses to refuse to appear or testify, or otherwise conspire to prevent the committees from ascertaining facts. Witnesses are exempted from arrest hy any authority, while coming, going or attending committees. The biil abolishes the responsibility of contumacious witnesses to any court, the punishment to be in flicted by that house of whose authority the witness is in contempt. RAILROAD EMPLOYES. Representative Whitthorne willto-morrow introduce a bill giving to all laborers and employes of railroads, chartered by Copgress, or which may be engaged in interstate commerce, a lien on the property of the respective companies for wages due, which shall have priority in equity, over the right of all other claims, and which may be enforced by attachment or otherwise in any district Court of the United States, FUNERAL. The funeral of Frederick D. Bluart, Past Grand Sire of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, took place this afternoon from Odd Fellows' Hall, and whs largely attended by the members of the order of the District of Columbia, and Virginia and Maryland. Among the prominent Odd Fellows were Grand Sire Stokes, and Past Grand Sires Moore, of this District; Durham, of Kentucky; Nicholson, of Pennsylvania, and Sheilock, of Ohio. DEATH OP JOHN B, KERR. Hon. John B. Kerr died suddenly this morning at bis residence in this city. He was a native of Maryland, son of United States Senator John Leeds Kerr, and was himself a member of Congress previous to 1850. President Filmore appointed him Minister to Central America. SUDDEN DEATH. John M. Van Bnskirk, prominently connected with the Columbia Bank Note company, of Washington, died here this morning after two days' illness of pneumonia. His generous nature and rare qualities as a friend endeared him to many who will long cherish his memory. FOliEIGN. Reported Slipilng of Hie Peace Preliminaries.London, Jan. 27. A Constantinople correspondent says : The Government has received a telegram to the effect that the preliminaries of peace have been signed, and that the Turkish delegates and the Grand Duke Nicholas would reach Adri-annple Saturday. The same correspondent stales that En-land bad the Porte's permission to enter the Dardanelles. The Post publishes the f allowing as an oflicial version of the preliminary conditions of peace: First The autonomy for .Bulgaria (boundaries not denned), under a Governor to be appointed ac cording to the stipulations of the Conalantinnple conference, the Turkish military forces to be withdrawn to certain localities to be determined upon. Second The independence of Roumania, with compensation for territory near the mouths of Danube, which she will make over to Russia. I.oril Derby and tlio Supplementary Vote. London, Jan. 28. The morning papers publish tbe following official announcement: "We are authorized to state that after explanation B with his colleagues and the Btoppage of the fleet in BeBika Bay, Lord Derby, who had offered his resignation at the name time as Lord Carnarvon, continues in office." The Standard understands that Lord Derby is not opposed to the supplementary vote. The newspapers publish "whips" from both sides, requesting the presence of their supporters for a division on the supplementary vote to night, The ministerial "whip" is very urgent, and says a division of the greatest importance ie certain. Cabinet Cnnncll Contradictions. London, Jan. -7. A Cabinet council was held to-day. All the Ministers were present, except Lord Cairns and the Duke of Richmond, who are in the country. The Agence Russe contradicts the rumors that the Russians are marching on Gallopili and that the peace conditions contain special arrangement relative to the Suiz canal, The Montenegro Military. Raqusa, Jan, 27. Montenegrins Saturday captured, after a violent bombardment, three fortified islands in Lake Scutari and were preparing to attack the important fortress of Zibliac to-day. The French Squadron, Toulon, Jan. 27. A division of the French Mediterranean squadron left for Levant to-day. GRIME AND CASUALTY. Attempt to Bob a Train of Cur.. Topeka, Ks,, Jan. 27. There was a daring attempt to rob a passenger train on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad, this morning. Between three and four o'clock Ave armed and masked men entered the Btation at Kinsley, Kansas, capturing A. Kincaid, the night tele graph operator, who was ordered to open the safe. He refused to do bo, although his life was threatened. The west bound express train arrived at thin time and the operator, by a desperate effort, broke loose and ran to a hotel near by, arousing the inmates, A volley of pistol shots was fired into it, and as the train stopped Con ductor J, W. Mai lory was met by two of the robbers, who presented pistols to bis head and ordered him into the baggage car. He stepped in and closed the door, in stantly starting the train by pulling the bell cord, Mallory and the naggage- master then armed themselves with carbines, carried in the car, and then stopped the train. After running about a mile from the station they went back into the coaches with their arms, but found the robbers were not on the train, and the passengers had not been disturbed. Im mediately after the train started, the rob bers, reported to be ten or niteen in num ber, mounted their horses and rode off ramdlv toward the Arkansas river. A party was at once organized to go in pursuit, and started only two or three miles behind tne robbers. A second par ty started at 7:30 with fresh horses and provisiors and the chances are good that the robbers will be captured. 1 he Super intendent ot tne railroad has also Bent a request to the commanding officer at Fort Uadge lor a parly of soldiers to join in pursuit. An answer has been received that a (quad of cavalry have been sent with a wagon ot supplies, Present indi cations are that Kinsley is an unhealthy country for train robbers. At 3:45 p. m. one of the pursuing party returned, with the report that the robbers had crossed the Arkansas river about nine miles west of Kinsley. Cars Bobbed. Trenton, N. J.. Jan. 27. Early this morning as the Philadelphia through freight train waB passing the coaling sta tion on the Pennsylvania railroad, three miles from Trenton, it was broken into by thieves and a large quantity of silks, clothes, linen, cigars and other goods thrown out, loaded on a wagon by an ac complice, and taken away. SUMMARY UF SUNDAY'S NEWS. The pension list for the year is $28.- 000,000. The Greenbaekers of Michigan are to hold a convention in Jackson, February 7. There are one hundred and seventy pa pers in Texas, and the majority are being published for the love of it, A Convention of State Agricultural Societies will be held in Washington, on the third Tuesday of February. The strike among the coal miners of West Virginia, has ended and the men have gone to work at the old prices. The cost of the Nez Perces war was $1,-000,000 in money, not to speak of tbe lives lost. Put this down to the credit of the army economists, Governor Williams commuted the sentence of Gillooly, who wsb to be hung Wednesday next, at Kokomo, Indiana, to imprisonment for life. Up to date the popular subscription to the iour-per-cent. loan, of which the Treasury Department has been advised, amounts to $2,025,000. The hearing in regard to the appointment of a Receiver for the Charter Oak Life Insurance company has been postponed to February 22. At Reading. Pennsylvania, Hezskiah Woolin.Johu iSquint, Thomas Francis, John Noll and Aaron Diase were convicted Saturday of participation in the railroad riots of last Bummer. According to the returns made to the State Board of Agriculture, the number of acres of winter wheat and rye sown in Illinois during the past fall was 2,032,843, against 1,729,296 acres during the previous year. Friday night Dr. John M. Laurence and Rachel Jackson, only daughter of Andrew Jackson, adopted son of the ex-President, celebrated their silver wedding at the Hermitage, the residence of Old Hickory, near Nashville, The new Territory of Lincoln, which it is proposed to carve out of Dakota, will contain seventyfive thousand square miles, and at this time has fifteen thousand inhabitants. It will, like Minnesota, be a great wheat country. On the 25th the Endowment House at Salt Lake was opened to accommodate persons from a distance to take polygamous wives. Between thirty and forty went through, one Mormon taking two women, said to bs mother and daughter The largest plow ever manufactured has just been turned out of a factory at Stockton, California, The mold-board is eight feet long, and the furrow which is cut is 35 inches wide. It is designed for work upon tbe tule lands and requires twelve stout oxen to pull it. Two girls of Richmond, Indiana, have been ruined recently by a couple of young men of high Blending. They invited the girls out for a walk, gave them drugged wine and then accomplished their purpose. The men have left the city. The names of all the parties are withheld. A sad story comes from Texas. A Miss Moore was preparing for marriage, and invited a friend, MisB Williams, to assist her, In rummaging through a drawer an old pistol was carelessly handled by Miss Williams, resulting in tbe Bhooting and instant death of Miss Moore. She was buried on the day that was to have been her wedding day, and tbe other young lady, who wts the innocent cause of it, hss become insane. Over one million trade dollars have been sent East during the present month, for domestic circulation. The profit in shipping trade dollars to the Eastern States is three per cent. Secretary Sherman haa the matter under consideration, and it is probable that the trade dollar coinage will for a time be wholly suspended, or the Philadelphia Mint will be opened for the same coinage, in order to place Eastern holders of bullion upon an equality with lbs Pacifio coast, There have been introduced in the present Congress thus far about "500 bills, of which about 1500 are private bills for the relief of indemnifications of persons in the South. It is estimated that the total amount of the claims is not lees than $7,000,000. In addition to these bills there are about 2500 petitions from persons in the South, asking for about $3,-000,000 more. Give the Democratic party a fair chance and there will be no occasion to worry about any surplus in the treasury. Indianapolis Journal. Oflicial information from General Miles's post at Fort Keogb, received at Bismarck, Dakota, states that Sitting Bull is at Frenchman's creek with over 1000 lodges, including escaped Nez Perces and refugees from the agencies. These last number 800 warriors, and Bitting Bull's own camp 2300. All are well arm ed. The principal hostile chiefs are with him Black Moon, Four Horns, Long Dog and Red Bear. Two companies of infantry have been sent to Fort Peck to hold it. Indians from Sitting Bull's camp have been seen within ten miles of fort reck, and an attack upon both that and f ort iveogh is among the possibilities. General Miles has only 600 men. A special from Washington to the Cincinnati Commercial of yesterday says: "The Matthews silver resolution will be reported to the House by tbe Clerk of the Senate on Monday for concurrence. The purpose is to call it up as Boon as it reach es the House, and to move its passsge under suspension of the rules, which will cut off debate. Its friends think it will receive the necessary twothirds vote. The opponents of the measure say they can and will prevent it from being taken up. In the first place, they hold that a motion to go to the Speaker's table will not be in order until after the usual call of States for bills and joint resolutions, and the subsequent call of committees for reports. It will not be difficult, therefore, for the opposition to consume the entire day, by having read each of the documents presented under these calls. On Tuesday, however, the table can be reached by a msiority vote, and in the same way all preceding measures can then be laid aside and the Matthews resolution taken up and put upon its passage. This will undoubtedly be done, as it is deemed important to nave a vote upon the question at tbe ear liest practicable moment." The Texas border troubles occupied the attention of the House committees onror-eign Affairs and Militarv Affairs Saturday Major Price,oi the Eighth cavalry.testified belore the lormer, and J. U. inciter, who was before the Foreign Affairs committee Friday, testified at great length before the committee on Military A Hairs. A large part of his examination was directed to show the lawless condition of society in the Hio lirande counties of lexas. and that people in the border towns of Mexico are kept in a good deal of alarm and irri tation by swaggering officers of Texas otate troops and some United States sub altern officers indulging in wild threats of invasion and conquest, lucker acknowl' edged the furnishing of arms and ammu nition to Diaz when he was preparing his revolutionary movement. He likewise admitted the payment of a certain sum of money to Ford on behalf of the Mexi can Government, and Ford has been be fore tbe committee on Foreign Affairs. He is familiarly known on the border as "Old Rip." He has held public meetings, and declared that he was authorized to raise a regiment of Slate tronpB. Ohio. Terrill's trial at New Lexington will commence on the 2oth of February. There is a proposition on foot to instl tute a normal school at Upper Sandusky. About 17,000 head of hogs have been packed this season at Washington Court House, a man named Joseph decker, was drowned at DelphoB on the 25lb inst., by tailing into the canal. G. W. Callender, of Painaville, committed suicide, on the 24th. bv haneinu nimseti in his nam. Thomas C. Livingston, of Morrow county, was killed by falling from a rail- roaa oringe at Iowa city, on Saturday ISBt. In Preble county -the other day, while a man named Spelluian was removing a load lroin a gun, lie was dangerously if not latany wounded. Dr. Frank II. Knarn, who last Bum mer shot and killed Dr. Knott, of Benton. Hancock county, has been acquitted of me cnarge oi murder. William Ditmers, an old well dieer ol Dayton, was killed on the 26th by be. ing BtiucK on tne Head by a heavy stone accidentally dropped into a well he was engaged in digging. A boy named Thompson, residing near West Sonore, Preble county, while currying a vicious horse the other day, was kicked in the head, from the effect of which he died. The parties charged with being impli. cated in the attempt to wreck a passenger train on the Dayton and Michigan road, near Columbus Urove, on the 20th, have been bound over to the Court of Common Pleas in the sum of $1000 each. While the evening freight train EiBt was passing JNorth Lewiaburg station on the 20th, a fifteen-year-old daughter of m. crown, me section foreman, was run over by the train, cutting her left arm off, and otherwise dangerously injuring her. ineiuiie town ot i-imore, unio, near Toledo, is terribly excited over tbe denat ure, Tuesday, the 23 J., of Amos Day, a heretofore highly respected and well-to-do citizsn, with Miss Alice Sarnes, a domestic in his family. Before leaving, Day Bold everything he could turn into money, leaving debts to the amount of $10,000. He leaves a wife and five children, the youngest but two months old. Representatives of the Trotting Associations of Youngatown, Warren, Akron, Massillnn and Lotidonville met in Akron on the 24th and formed the Eastern Ohio Trotting Circuit, with E. B. Bailees, of MasBillnn, as President, and A. T. Shaffer, of Youngstown, Secretary. The circuit will open at Loudonville the first week in June, and the races will ho held at the towns named, closing with Youngstown, the first week in July. A special dispatch from Waverly, dated the 2Ulh, says: "Tom Woodburn, who was stabbed last Saturday by a railroader known as Kentucky Ben, died to-night. Two men from Perry township were lodged in jail last night for being 'too much married, A man named Koberts, from Milllin township, was committed to jail last night, charged with bastardy, by a Miss Watts. Pike county Jail is overrun with prisoners, four of whom are Bure for the Penitentiary," Forelirn, The total Russian losses in Europe to January 5 were 80,435 men. The newspapers state semi-official intelligence announcing that the Russian conditions of peace will include the opening of the Straits to Russian war ships. This concession is granted by Turkey, Admiral Hornby took the British fleet up to the mouth of the Dardanelles, where, at the telegraph Btation, he received the countermand. He did not, therefore, proceed to the forts, but returned to Besik:a bay, The French Government has ordered two advice boats to proceed to Constantinople, The commander of the French iron-clad at Smyrna has been ordered to hold himself in readiness to protect French subjects in Constantinople, if necessary, ' A pptcial dispatch from Chalcios, Greece, says : The transport of troops, artillery and ammunition to the frontier is proceeding vigorously. Everything indicates immediate hostilities. All infantry have left for Lamia. Great enthusiasm prevails. A dispatch from the United Stales Vice Consul at Shanghai, asking for funds, says: "An appalling famine is raging throughout four provinces of North China. Nine millions of people are reported destitute. Children are daily sold in the markets for food." The Forte has received no news of any armistice having been signed. The Russian headquarters, accompanied by the lurkiah plenipotentiaries, have lett J.aa-sanlik, continuing their advance. The foreign ambassadors are still unacquainted with the Russian conditions of peace, but they have been communicated to the Turkish Parliament at a secret sitting. The Golos haa an important article, suggesting measures to retrieve Russia's financial position after the war. It concludes by advocating partial disarmament, and Bays : Even if such a course is not decided upon by the conference for the whole of Jiuropa, Kusaia might adopt it with impunity, considering her admira ble veteran army inured to war by a diffi cult campaign. The rumor that Spain will sign the treaty with San Domingo at the end of this month, assuming a Protectorate over that island, causes great excitement in San Domingo tand Hayti, and serves to further increase the unpopularity of Pres ident Baes. The rumor is somewhat strengthened by the appointment of Span iah Consuls at several ports of the Domin ican Republic. Trustworthy advices from Vienna indi cate that Austria also had begun to look for something more tangible than the gen eral assurances of Russia's good intentions, and had taken steps to obtain at least a formal diplomatic pledge that the interests of the Monarchy should suffer no detriment. ihe communications exchanged are said to have shown a more earneBt desire than ever, on the part of Russia, to maintain the good understanding hitherto prevailing, and it is believed the present exchange of views will lead to a satisfactory issue, Germany, also, according to a special dispatch from Berlin, has, within a few days, warned Russia afresh that the terms of feice must be submitted to the Powers for approval. The North German Gazette, reviewing the proceedings in the Eoglish Parliament, says: We note the termination of this English episode of intervention, which ended as quickly as it began, with the greatest satisfaction, especially as it afforded a fresh opportunity of proving the unshakable understanding existing between the three Imperial Powers. All the machinations aiming directly or in directly at undermining the alliance of the three Jsmperors, which is tbe most effectual guarantee of European peace, are again frustrated in this phase of the crisis by the loyalty of Russia, who remained in intimate communication with Austria throughout, and by Austria's un shakable adherence to its former Eastern policy. Treasury Statement. The following announcement of funds in the United States TrcSBurv was made Saturday : In United Slates bonds to secr.re ffational bank circulation 8340,075,050 United states bonds to secure pub lic iil.,u-iih i.,,ui,i,u!;i; United 8tstes bonds deposited tor circulation for the week endmg today 'J8, United Stated bonds held forcircula-lalion, withdrawn in the wook ending to day a,;, National baLk eireulaiion Olltslnnd- ing, gold notes 1,432,120 Currency notea 31ti,Mn,H,",4 Internal revenue ilitf1l'I.lii,07ti uueioms 47,110 Receipt of National batik notes lor the week euduic to-day 5.470.000 Comjuired wilh the corresponding (, en uu i a.iyRxr. ................... ,.- u Rei'etpta to-day '75:l.lJ'iO Currency 3,000, 782 Special limd for redemption oi'truc- tional currency 10,000,000 Special deposit of Iwgai tenders for me reaeniplion ol certibcales ot denosit :IS.00'i.O(lO Coin 1:11,61 ',f.!!6 Including com certificates 4 1 .FiuO.GUU Uutaluuuing legal tenders 34,04,770 ColliNlon lletwccn Mfittc and Fedoral UiliccrN. At one o'clock Saturday Sheriff Hous ton, who had been in the Mew Orleans Custom House for several hours, learning that a Deputy Marshal bad been put in charge of the Collector's office, which was locked and bolted, proceeded to the main duor uf the office, and there informed the Marshal and Deputy Collector Tomlin- son that be bad a writ to execute againat Wells & Co.. whom he bad gocd reaaons to believe were confined in the room, and he desired admittance. This was refused, whereupon the Sheriff, who was accom panied by two Deputies, Btated that he would lorce an entrance. Mr. iomlin- son then summoned the Chief Deputy jyiarstiai, who proceeded to tbe door ot the Collector's office, and there ordered the Sheriff and assistants, as well as the crowd that had gathered, to disband. The Sheriff refused to leave, stating that he was determined to execute the writ of the Court at any hazard, or lie arrested in the attempt. Sheriff Houston then slightly advancing, Deputy Marshal Wurzburger laid hands upon him, and claimed him and his deputies as prisoners. The Sheriff and his party submitted to the arrest, and were taken before Judge Billings, sitting in the United States Cir cuit Court, but the latter said he had nothing to do with the matter, as the parties had not been arrested by virtue of any procesB from his Court. Mr. Wurlzburger then took his prisoners before United States Commissioner Lane, where he sta ted the case, when Mr. Lane requested him to reduce the subject matter to an af fidavit. Great excitement prevails about the Custom House, Mr. Tomlinson. the Collector's corre sponding secretary, has made affidavit be fore Commissioner .Lane against Houston for resisting a Custom Hcut-e officer, and bos sent for thecoinmauder of the revenue cutter and a detachment of marines, order ing tbem to bs stationed at his door, through which a passage has to be effect ed to reach the Collector's office. General Sheldon and Mr. Dolarven ap pearing before Commissioner Lane, and denying the jurisdiction of his Court, asked for Houston's release. Mr. Gurley, Assistant District Attor ney, asked a continuance until Monday. Lane refused to grant any continuance, but released Houston on his own recogni zance, who ib understood to have immediately dispatched a subordinate to bring an armed lorce to lorce an entrance to the Custom House, The entrance to the Collector's office is patrolled by armed marines from the rev enue cutter John A. Dix. They are there as the United States Marshal's force. and under command of General Whar ton. The report that an attorney for the Returning Board had made a motion before Judge Billings for a writ of certiorari is not true. The following is telegraphed. New OaLKANs, January 20. To Hon. Charles Devons, Attorney General of mo united -states, nnsnington u. u.: Four persons J. Madison Wells, Thomas C. Anderson, G. Cassanave and L. M, Kenner who are under an information for felony, under the laws of this State, forfeited their recognizance, and have, I am informed, taken shelter in the Custom Houbb of thin cit y Writs for their arrest are in the hands of the Sheriff, and he went with the writs to arrest them. Understanding that they were shut up in a room of the building, he was about to force an entrance for the purpose of arresting them, when he was himself arrested, as I am informed, upon an affidavit that he threatened to open tbe door by force. I am not aware of any cession nf the ex clusive jurisdiction on this building, nor of any law that would give immunity to offenders against the State law within its walls. Please inform me whether the General Government has authorized or will sanction this conduct. H, N. Ogden, Att'y Gen, Louisiana. About ten o'clock at night Marshal Wharton received an answer to his dispatch from the Attorney General, in structing him not to interfere with the execution of the writs of the State courts. Sheriff Houston was notified, and found Anderson, Kenner and Casanave in the Collector's otbee, from whence they were taken to tbe parish prison, where they will remain until they furnish new bonds of $5000 each. Wells was not in the Custom House, but was Been on the morning train of the Mobile road. It ia believed he is still in the State, and will furnish bonds at once. A Lane Without Bottom. Virginia (Nov.) Enterprise. Pyramid Lake is nearly forty miles in length by from nfteen to twenty in width It -is but 4000 feet above the level of the sea, while Lake Tahoe is 6216 feet above the sea level. The lake contains inanv islands, several of which, near the mid dle of tbe lake, rise to the hight of some hundreds ot feet, and are pyramidal in form and light gray in color. One tall spire, seen far down to the northward, where tbe lake seems shoreless, is perfectly wnue. A large island, probably the largest in the luke, contains five or Bix square miles of comparatively level ground, ami is covered with vegetation. Upon this island a number of goats were turned loose some years since, and they have increased at a wonderful rate, so that they may now bs seen feeding upon every hill, ihey need no care, winter or sum mer, and are about as wild as the goats lound by i-tobinson Crusoe on the island of Juan Fernandez. Tbe lake is of im mense depth; it is said that near the cen ter buo fathoms ol line failed to bnd bot tom. Tbe waters of the lake are brackish, except immediately about the point where the waters of the Truckee river flow into it. Owing to the brackishnees of its waters. to its great depth, or to both depth and brackiahnefs, the lake never freezes. Although the lake is generally very rough, owing to its being exposed to sweeping westerly winds, the Piute Indians fearlessly navigate it in all directions and almost at all times on their tule rafts. These rafts are often nothing more than a single bundle of tules, but when the raft is intended to accommodate more than one person two or three bundles are lash ed together and drawn into the shape of a clumsy boat. Near shore they generally pole these craft about, but they frequent ly hoist a sail made of a blanket aud fearlessly steer away so far out upon the lake that only their sail remains visible, ihese tule boats very closely resemble the cata marans use'd by the natives of Borne of the islands of the South Pacific. They are so buoyant that it is impossible to sink them. Far out in the lake among islands they Bet their long lines, strung full of hooks. These they visit on their rafts, and sometimes bring in not less than three hundred pounds of trout at ons trip. The trout are sold at ten cents per pound at the lake, therefore it will readily be seen that fishing is a profitable business. At the north or lower end of the lake are a d zen or more islands of rock of peculiar and picturesque form. These are of solid rock, and are from 300 fo 400 feet in height. At a distance they look like monster mushrooms or eggR standing on eleins such eggs as-aiight have been produced by the roe, that bird of ancient times, one wing of which, according to Ibn.EI-Wardee, was 10,000 fathoms long. it is impossible toclimb these rocks, aB, wbile their stems form perpendicular walls, it is beyond the power of man to ascend those parts where they begin to swell out into domes. Mr. Stiles says he has sounded the lake at the baee of Borne of these fantastic islands, and, with the longest line at his command, was unable to find bottom. One of the largest of these islands, the tall white one seen from toward the head of the lake, ia not wholly perpendicular on all sides. On one of itB sides there iB a steep slope which it is thought might be scaled in bo me way. A story iB current at the lake that John C. Fremont, the great "Pathfinder," found a path to the top of this rock. It is believed that he left his field glasses and some other instruments of value on the summit of the rock, and many attempts have been made to climb it in order to secure these articles. The last attempt to scale the pyramid was by a Bailor, who used a long rope, throwing it upward until it caught upon a projecting point of rock, then drawing himself up, again throwing hia rope to a rock above. He reached a height of about 150 feet, when he was unable to find any more projections over which to throw his rope, and came near never reaching level ground alive. He was obliged to descend in the same way as he effected the ascent, and when he finally got down he was completely exhausted; his hands were bleeding, and he was cut and scratched from head to foot. The fishermen have now concluded that the only way in which the field glasses and other plunder can be secured is by attaching a line to a rock afid then firing it over the top of the pyramid from a mortar. One of the small rocky islands of the lake is alive with rattlesnakes. It is supposed that the first of the stock were wafted to the island on a raft of tules or driftwood. Doc. Wood, who has visited the island, saya there is "millions in it." The reptiles have their homes among the rocks, and live on tbe eggs and young of waterfowl, and upon the dead fish that are cast ashore on the island. Mr. Wood Bays that the stories that have been told of the snakes rushing in a body, hissing and rattling, to attack any man on the island, are untrue. He found that, whenever they were disturbed, they ran away and concealed themselves in the crevices of the rocks, just as would have been done by any other Bnakes. Ifoiisc Plant. But.few things, says the Times, of Phil-adelphi, add more to the cheerfulness of a sitting room than a few plants, in healthy vigorous growth, Thess may be of various kinds, according to the taste of individuals. Geraniums, pinks, ivy and other common II were, are easily and cheaply grown. It surprising what handsome foliage and what quantities of llow-erB can be produced in the sitting room, under the care of a person who loves flowers. Such a person needs but little instruction, for what is done seems intuitivethe right thing at the right time. We have seen even the camelia grown finely in a sitting room, yet this was a rare case. The use of novelties always furnishes increased interest to the culture of flowers, and many noveltioB are readily procurable. For instance, take a large sweet potato and place it in the mouth of a fruit can. or a small earthen jar filled with rain water, allowing the potato to dip into the water, Bay two or three inches. Set in a warm, sunny spot, and soon it will sprout. Break off all but three or four shoots, and allow these to droop or train on a trelliis, or in any other way that seems desirable. Nothing more is necessary to be done than to supply additional water as fast as evaporation diminishes the depth in the jar. The sweet potato ia a vine, and a very pretty one. A sponge filled with the seed of cress and kept moist will soon appear a ball of living green. A pot, or better, a pan filled with bulbs of oxalit offers a pretty sight. Whatever is selected, however, remember not to give too much heat. A cool temperature at night and sunlight and warmth by day, with the ordinary care which a lover of flowers would exer cise, insures success. JNot every one can have a greenhouse: but any one who chooses may share a portion of its deligbti in his or her own house. How a SlanTuked flare of Ilia Baby. Scribnor for February.! In spite of all the statements to the contrary, there are men who help take care of their children. They are the kindest and best husbands in the world. They do not wish to see their wives overburdened with care and worry, and they intend to help them a great deal, and actually do. Yet it can not be denied, that their opinion concerning the value of their services and their wives' opinion on the same subject do not exactly coincide. One of these good husbinds will help dress the children for breakfast, and speak of it with a grandly virtuous air, while the fact is that he only washed the face of one while his wife washed and dreBsed the other t'iree. He helps to get the children ready for church; that is, he buttons up Dick's boots, and helps Jenny put on her gloves alter he has leis urely and comfortably dressed himself. while his wife ties sashes, and hunts up odd gloves, and puts on collars, and curls one child's hair and washes another's hands, and in the intervals "does up" her own hair, and saves tbe baby Irom tbe ra. zor, and Jenny's best bonnet from the ba- by. tie stands patiently V in the hall as the bells begin to toll, ami mildly calls, "It is getting late, Maria." Which fact Maria knows as well as he doeB, for her bands are trembling so with nervousness and haste that Bhe can hardly put a sin gle pin in its right place. J ust as the last strokes of the bell are sounding they hurry off to church, losing entirely the calming influence which comes Irom a leisurely walk on a fine Sunday mornine. He takes the opportunity to remark, with just a Bhade of reproof in his gentle tones, 1 can i understand why it takes you bo long to get ready. It really does Beem as if with sb much as I do to help vou. we need not be obliged to hurry Boat the last minute. I don't like to see you go up the aisle with your face as red as a lobster." which, of course, iB very soothing to Maria's irritated nerves. The father cares for the baby at night in pretty much the same fashion. The mother has lifted the child into her own bed, and back into its cradle again, in the vain hope that in one place or the other he will go to sleep, has brought "drinks of water" for him, rocked the cradle and sung to its uneasy occupant softly and leepily for an hour, till finally she thinks that if she is to be in thissemi-amphibious stale, half out of bed ard half in, tbe air from the open wiuduw is too cool for her. She knows if she tries to shut it herself the little tyrant will instantly miss her presence and be ten times wider awake than ever, and all the hour's singing and rocking will be labor lost. So, with much regret she softly asks John to get up aud close the window. He has ain remarkably still and breathed rather heavily, and is somewhat difficult to arouse for a man who afterward declares he was wide awake all the time. But like the good husband he is, he cheerfully closes the window and gels an extra blanket for the baby, and pleasantly aeks, as he settles down into the pillows ugain, "What makes the baby so uneasy to-night?" Ho manifests a strange iudifferencs to his wife's reply, and in fact nothing more is heard of him till morning, while hia wife sleepily and painfully works away for an hour longer. But at breakfaet, with what calm complacency does he speak of the trouble the baby made us last night, with an "us" fairly editorial in its comprehensiveness. The next night he goes into a room by himself to sleep. He "can't stand it to have his rest broken bo," but adds generously, "I'll take caio of him the next night." And so be does till about twelve o'clock, when the baby wakes and cries. For ten minutes he tries faithfully to get him tosleep again, and then ignominious-ly retreats and calls for "mamma," BlonliiK op Stumps. It has been demonstrated that stumps can be blown out of the ground much cheaper than pulled out. In an experiment lately tried, five stumps were operated on, the first being oak. A hole was punched under it between two projecting roots. Then a cartridge of dynamite about two inches long, and an inch in diameter, was ineerted in the whole, which was made with a crowbar; and on being fired, the stump was blown out, Next, a chestnut stump was Berved in the same way; and it was blown, as the report says, "to atoms." Other stumps which would have cost a dollar each to remove in any other way, were thrown out skyward. A charge was put under a rock of about two tons weight, and it was thrown from its bed and shattered to pieces. With larger charges, stumps were blown 125 feet. Excuse for Necond Marrlnft-e. A negro minister who married rather Booner after the death of his wife than some of his sisters thought proper and becoming, excused himself as follows: "My dear brcderen and sisters, my grief was greater dan I could bear. I turned ebery way for piece and comfort, but none came. I sarched do Scriptures from Gin-isee to Ksbelalion, and found plenty promises to the widder,but nary one to de widderer, So I took it dat the good Lord didn't waste sympathy on a man when it was in his power to comfort hisself; and habin a fusB-gale chance to marry in de Lord, I did so, and would do so again. Besides, brederen, I consider dat poor Patsey was juss as dead as Bhe would eber be." Golden Kutes. For Fathers of Families Never waste money on self indulgences. Better give al 1 your available spare cash to your wives and daughters, who will know how to spend it profitably at the milliners' and dressmakers'. For Mothers and Daughters Never trouble yourselves with small accounts or paltry calculations. It is the business of the head of the family to earn money yours to spend it. For Sons Never know your own father out of the house. It is not considered genteel. Never keep a cash-book or diary, but draw checks on the parental banker to any extent that may be necessary for your expenses. fSinohinir Iho sjnrcnllo. One of the members of the Illinois Horticultural Society described, at a meeting of that society, his mode of repelling the curcullo by smoking it out, He placed a quart of gas tar in a kettle, and throwing in some ehavingB set them on tire. The thick black smoke settled on both fruit and leaves, without apparent injury to them. No ctirctilios were Been. The operation was repealed twice a week till the plums were nearly grown, and they ripened well. This mode may answer, but the process of jarring down when properly conducted, by pounding on iron plugs set in the limbs or trunk, would probably be easier and cheaper. New Advertisements. Business Chance ! TP YOU ARB LOOKING FOR BUSINESS, i.ou ouij cue . a. msmvAi, KOOra otj ot. Jiiarl8 Hotel He comes well reuommeoded by responsible parties ia this State who now fully Ruarautee the truth of the etatement, viz: That lie can show you the bet paying busmen a In this couutry. It is certainly woriTi inventi-gatiug. Call before Wednesday. jan28 'Zi LEGAL NOTICE. SAKAH SAMM'S AND ANJALINB WEST BR-VULT. who reside In thn Utatn nf Tnwa: and Kasnlea Upurgeon, who residH in theBtate of Illinois, hairs at law of Peter Westervelt, deceased, will take notice that Lewis R Good-speed, executor of the last will and testament ol Pater Westervelt, deceased, on the 6ih day of January, A. D. 1878, filed hia petition in the Probate Court, within and for the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, alleging that the personal eHiate of said decedent is insutlicent to pay his debts and the charges of administering his estate; that he died siezed in fee simp e of the following described real estate, situate in said county, to. wit: The I'our-ninth share of lot No. 44, in ihe tillage of Wester-yille,;oliio, as described on the plat of the new survey of said village, made A. 1). 18o; and that Hannah Westervelt, as widow cf said do cedent, is entitled to dower in said promises. The prayer of said petition is for the assignment of dower to said Hannah Westervelt, and for a sale of said premises, subject to such dower estate, for the payment of the debts and charges aloresaid. Said petition will be for hoaring on the 4th day of March, A. D. 1878, or OS soon thereafter as leavo can be obtained. L. It. GOODSPERD, Executor of Peter Westervelt, deceased. A. Animus, Att'y. jan28 dlttebO w3w T II U Connecticut MUTUAL Life Insurance Company, OP H1BTFOBD, CONN, Organized 184C. Charter Perpetual. Met Aei)elslJau.l,lS76,81i,463,0u'G.O'3 RECEIVED IN 1S76. Por Pre. iiilnms.. 8(1,785,120 07 I'arluter-, -at aud Kent 2,893,993 10 8(,10,114 13 831,081,179 00 DISBmSF.Ii IN 1S70. To Policy Holdem 8,018,758 OS This Company is purely mutual, not having a dollar of stock. Its policy holders are tho only members of the Corporation, it ia therefore in effect, a simple partne'shin nf persons for insuring each other's lives. There, being no stock, there can be no sale ot the Company from one set cf owners and managers to another; but itB affairs remain perpetually in the entire control of the members themselves, to elect a board of twelve directors each year. This board meets weekly, and directly supervises all the buBiness of the CompaDy. The Company issues whole life policies wilh oither -nnual prea nuns for life, which it prefers and recommends, or wilh a limited number of pre-niums: it will alBo issue long-term endowments. Experience has shown that these are tho most advantageous forms of policies, both to the individual and to the Company. We stall, therefore, restrict ourselves to them. The surplus earned in any year is returned to the following year, only by reduction of premium, thus limiting the pavments to the ac-tunl current cost of tho Insurance, In thirty years, this association of men, united in interests and purposes, as a single feature m its history, has paid to the representatives of seven thousand ave hundred and sixty members who have died, the vast sum of twenty. five millions one hundred and twenty-nine thoiisa- d five hundred and thirty.. ix dollars - $aa,iso,5Be.oo - as follows: Claims raid in Each Year from Organization, December 15, 1816 1818.. 1847.. 1X48... . 3.800 CO 17,7o'l 00 82,000 00 1810.. Hi), 711) 27 1851 ln.887 60 180,417 00 8'kI 185,462 73 1854 2;,3,12 Ml 1865 2118 0110 03 1850...., 2(18 020 77 1857.. 1858.. 1869, 238,825 00 213,1150 (10 152,919 68 I860 223.4110 00 1801 264,44(1 23 1862 339.601) 00 1803 876,890 0(1 1804 482,387 00 18U5 7118,137 10 186(1 972,632 72 1867 1,1SI,87 08 1868 1,2H0,G75 0(1 I860 1,428,787 00 1870 1,752,369 211 1671 1,792,268 83 1872 2,2119 991 50 1873 2,872,356 17 1874 2, 75,21(1 71 1875 2,673,362 27 1670. 2,271,718 00 Total amount paid to Dec. OL, ISiO .82.1,120,53.6 St Facts and figures like theso commend themselves to the intelligence and Judgment of nil men. They carry conviction upon hare presentation, and need no argument or illustration to demonstrate their significance. JAMES GOODWIN, President. J it COB I.. GREENF, ttcc'y. JOHN JH. TAYIiUIC, Ans'l Sec'y. I. II. WEILS, Sil Asa't Hee'f.Z F.D.nOUGLAHN,Nnptol Agencies GEO. W. FACKLER.Gen'l Ag't, CINCINNATI, O. F. J. EMIEY, Special Agent, COLUMBD8, O. 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